Fashion Entrepreneurship: Retail Business Planning, 2nd Edition

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The second edition of Fashion Entrepreneurship builds on its strong focus on the retail business planfrom helping students develop the business concept, to providing them with knowledge of basic business principles, to assisting them in writing a retail business plan. Content is reorganized to bring up front the discussion of the business plan and to incorporate e-retailing throughout the text. The text's sample business, RealWomen, Inc., illustrates the concepts involved in creating a business plan and serves as a model for completing one's own plan, sequentially, as the content of the text is read and applied. In addition, the scope of the book is expanded to include interior and exterior design, visual merchandising, retail store planning and Web site planning, the role of technology, and global markets.

Michele M. Granger, PhD, ITAA, is a full professor in the Fashion and Interior Design Department, College of Business Administration, at Missouri State University. She has authored six textbooks with expertise in the areas of fashion merchandising, internships, and entrepreneurship.

How to Use the CD-ROM and TextBecoming a Fashion Retail EntrepreneurDeveloping a Road Map for SuccessAnalyzing the Industry and Finding CustomersIdentifying the Product and the Business ConceptPlanning a Strategy to Open a BusinessFinding the Right Location for the BusinessBuilding a Business Using the WebReaching Customers and Driving SalesBuilding a Team to Drive SuccessPlanning the Merchandise AssortmentBuilding the Financial PlanDeveloping Operating and Control Systems